John Barrett
Birthday: 1910-02-18
Place of Birth: Rochdale, Lancashire, England, UK
Biography: Rochdale born John Barrett was a veteran of over 100 films and various TV programmes in a career that stretched twenty five years from 1958 to his death in 1983.
Movies
Twelve Off the Belt
Grand Challenge pie-eating contest : ' Winner finishes most whole pies off the belt in half-an-hour....
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The Hunting of Lionel Crane
An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper....
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Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred
Two incidents in a young actress's life have their effect on each other - a dinner date with a film ...
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Our Cissy
An old man travels to London from the North Country, accompanied by his son, in order to find the tr...
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Comedians
Comedians is a TV movie/play by Trevor Griffiths, set in a Manchester evening class for aspiring wor...
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Last Wishes
An elderly recluse dies in the process of changing her will. The change would have meant that the se...
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Who Pays the Piper?
A dramatised documentary about the lives and work of the performers and administrators of a local or...
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The Testing of Eric Olthwaite
Eric Olthwaite is so boring that his family all leave home to escape him. Then one day he is acciden...
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It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
Based on James Herriot's books about life as a 1930s veterinarian in Yorkshire, John Alderson plays ...
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Porridge
Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Be...
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Anna Karenina
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the w...
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Remembrance
A group of Devonport-based Royal Navy ratings, due to sail to America for a six-month NATO exercise,...
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Far from the Madding Crowd
Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and beco...
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the ...
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, o...
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Up the Chastity Belt
A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lur...
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The Trygon Factor
A Scotland Yard detective is investigating a string of robberies and a murder, and the information h...
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The Missionary
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to Engl...
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The Witches
Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby...
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Nearest and Dearest
When Eli and Nellie Pledge's father dies, the duo are left in charge of his pickle empire. The two s...
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War-Gods of the Deep
A chance discovery leads American mining engineer Ben Harris and acquaintance Harold to discover a l...
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O Lucky Man!
An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to ...
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Robin and Marian
Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Maria...
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The Eagle Has Landed
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a cou...
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Tess
A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capita...
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Lloyd George Knew My Father
When Lady Sheila Boothroyd hears that the planning authorities are determined to drive a road throug...
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Jack the Ripper
A serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman is b...
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The Long Distance Piano Player
The first Play for Today is the story of one man's obsession (to win the world long distance piano p...
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Smokey Joe's Revenge
Three children rejuvenate an old traction engine and enter it for the County Championship....
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Malachi's Cove
A tough young girl lives with her aging grandfather near a cove on the coast of Cornwall. She suppor...
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The World of George Orwell: 1984
Early adaption of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as part of the Theatre 625 series....
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Packman's Barn
Ben Packman leaves an old people's home to return to the Welsh mountains....
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Murder Rap
Wally, a caretaker in a block of flats, loses his job when the flats are used to rehouse Bhengali fa...
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A Prize of Arms
A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll....
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There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah
A skiving bin gang are on high alert when their new inspector takes an interest....
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The Crunch
A megalomaniac dictator, in charge of a former colony, installs a nuclear bomb in its London Embassy...
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The Death of Glory
Prevented by health reasons from joining the Army, a man lives out his military fantasies by leading...
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Rolling Home
Mr Wyman is an elderly man whose increasingly unreliable memory has landed him in a geriatric ward. ...
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Pews
Liftchick has a problem. As beadle to the synagogue he is responsible for getting ten men together t...
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Fair Tradin' on the Dancin' Ground
A man abducts a boy after his son is taken from him by social services....
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Silver Lining
1977: Edgar Parker is about to emigrate to Canada. His wife wants him to stay in London for the Ju...
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The Treat
Episode of The Frighteners: It was meant to be a great day out for three veterans and the male nurse...
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